bet Cnc is an orange K-type dwarf (about 1.70 solar masses, 4,092 K, 47.2 solar radii), 89.0 light-years from Earth. bet Cnc b is a 7.80-Jupiter-mass companion, with an orbital period of 1.66 years, at 1.700 AU from its star, on an eccentric orbit (e ≈ 0.08), discovered in 2014 via radial velocity. The planet betrayed itself through the star's reflex motion — a technique that first revealed worlds around Sun-like stars in the 1990s and remains a workhorse of exoplanet discovery. bet Cnc b orbits at roughly the distance of Mars from the Sun.

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